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David B. Ruderman is the Joseph Meyerhoff Professor of Modern Jewish History and the Ella Darivoff Director of the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. His many books include Jewish Enlightenment in an English Key and Connecting the Covenants.

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University of Pennsylvania professor David Ruderman's excellent lecture series focuses on Jewish Identity in the modern era by examining the ideas and influence of a small group of critical thinkers. The course begins with the exiles of the Inquisition in the Venetian ghettos in 1516 and then moves to Amsterdam and Baruch Spinoza. In many cases, Ruderman examines subsequent thinkers' work as both a response to Spinoza and the conditions of the era in which they reside. His analysis of the show more origins and thinking of the major divisions of contemporary Judaism: Modern or neo- Orthodox, Conservative, Reform, and Reconstructionist is fascinating. Lectures on Martin Buber, Theological responses to the Holocaust, and Jewish Feminist theory also stood out. Ruderman has an impressive command of his subject and is a highly skilled lecturer. I highly recommend this series. show less
Ruderman fjallar um rúmlega 10. alda sögu menningar gyðinga á umbrotatímum fram á árnútímann. Sem gefur að skilja er þetta ákaflega sundurleit saga því hann fylgir þjóðflutningunum um veldi Múhameðstrúarmanna, Íberíuskaga og um alla Evrópu. Athyglivert er að sjá hvernig viðhorf múslima var öðruvísi en kristinna og ekki síst hvernig viðhorfin breytast í aldanna rás. Ruderman gefur engar skýringar á þessum atriðum en dregur fram helstu áhrifavaldanna. show more Það er líka kostur að hann fjallar örlítið um kynjasögu gyðinga á þessum tímum en lætur þess þó getið að hún sé of lítið rannsökuð til að hægt sé að skoða hana fullnægjandi. show less

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